Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi, has said that there is no compelling reason for a sitting governor to leave the PDP at this point apart from greed and selfishness.
He maintained that the PDP is currently in good standing as the party has addressed its major problems.
DAILY POST reported that the Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, was the latest governor to resign his membership of the PDP.
He left the PDP and announced he was joining the ruling APC alongside 23 members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Wednesday.
This is coming barely 24 hours after the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah had joined the ruling party.
“It’s nothing other than greed, avarice, and you know, selfishness on the part of those leaving.
“You cannot find compelling reason, in the words of Senator Seriake Dickson that would warrant a governor rounding up a second term, for example, in the case of Bayelsa, to want to leave the party, you can’t find a justifiable reason other than covetousness, greed and avarice,” he said on Arise News.
“Our party is in good stead. We have internal challenges like every other political party and we have since addressed major problems that would have afflicted the possibilities of our having, you know, a platform for Nigerians to serve as opposition as we journey towards 2027.
“So these few elements are driven by self, greed, and probably a few of them that are having a second term ambition, coercion, intimidation and temptation of the ruling party, which it keeps, you know, offering them.
“Other than those, we can’t find any other reason, but to the best of PDP is good riddance to bad rubbish, if only we can have the opportunity of, you know, weeding these terrible elements out of the PDP as we head towards our convention, exactly a month from today, you would find out that we will get to that convention ground better.
“We would understand our problems and appreciate them and come out not just more cohesive, but prepared, you know, to retrieve this country from this army of occupation called government, you know, masquerading in the gap of Democrats, Nigeria has not had it funny the last 10 years, but particularly two years plus now.
“And so I can’t understand why a sitting governor, of all persons who must have been promoted by a political party and campaigned against this rudolphus element, you know, who are vicious elements of democracy, you know, to want to now get attracted to them, to want to go.
“A lot of persons have called a lot of them and were asking questions. What could have been the reason? Because there’s no available reason out there, and in all of the states, PDP is in good state, like you heard, you know, the deputy with that you interviewed earlier, saying there’s no problem, no rationale whatsoever, in most of the states other than selfishness and greed.
“But then we bid them farewell. Let’s see what happens. You know, as we journey towards 2027 it’s not about PDP and APC, or in other political parties, as it were, it’s now against APC, against Nigerians.
“Let them do all the things they can do. We have had worse temptations than this,” he added.
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